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A quick follow-up to that last post. Phillies fans seem to think they can get Mookie Betts in a potential trade with the Red Sox for Cole Hamels. It's not going to happen. Dave Cameron has been beating this drum over at FanGraphs and I agree. Firs...

Saw this on FanGraphs: Internal notes the Astros kept on on trade discussions last year were leaked to the public via a data warehouse site. You can read more at FanGraphs, but here were a couple of trades ideas Dave Cameron pointed out (and here's m...

ESPN Insider Dave Cameron wrote on Sunday that the Tigers should be considered World Series favorites. They've remade their roster a bit, especially in the infield, but they still have two-time AL MVP Miguel Cabrera, Cy Young winner Max Scherzer ... ...

A player's peak age is generally considered to be somewhere between ages 26 and 29, and during this stretch, it is reasonable to expect a majority of players to perform at the best levels of their careers. This is the point at which they have gained ...

Our colleague Dave Cameron is dreaming up some big deals he thinks can make sense for both trading partners. His first one is CC Sabathia for Matt Kemp. While I don't see it because the Yankees only have two starters (Ivan Nova is the other) to begin...

A couple quick takes on Chase Utley's pending extension with the Phillies: --Bill Baer of Crashburn Alley likes the deal. --So does Dave Cameron of FanGraphs. As Dave writes of the base two-year, $27 million part of the deal: This is basica...

Phil Hughes is just 27. In his career, he is 56-45 with a 4.42 ERA. Not great, but not bad. Still, the Yankees have a little less than two weeks to decide if they want to pull the plug on Hughes. Dave Cameron (Insider link) proposed the Yanke...

As you probably know, strikeouts continue to climb higher and higher. In the chart at the right, are strikeouts per game: As Dave Cameron wrote last week on FanGraphs, Over the past 30 years, the strikeout rate in MLB has gone from 14.0 percent...

Jake Roth/USA TODAY Sports Don Mattingly isn't particularly surprised that Carl Crawford is off to a fast start. For one thing, there's the "start" part of that. In a few months, nobody is going to remember that on April 18, Crawford was batting ....

I had noted yesterday how the Chicago White Sox weren't drawing any walks and then saw this piece today from Dave Cameron at FanGraphs titled "Adam Dunn's failed experiment." Dunn apparently said in spring training he was going to be more aggressive ...

ESPN Insider Dave Cameron wrote last week about speed being the Toronto Blue Jays' secret weapon. Their not-so-secret weapons are the 1-2 punch of Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion in the middle of the batting order. Encarnacion had a breakout s...

Sources say Justin Upton rejected a trade to the Seattle Mariners -- one of four such designated teams in his contract, along with the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs. As Dave Cameron pointed out on the U.S.S. Mariner blog, this...

Count Dave Cameron of ESPN.com and FanGraphs among those who thinks moving Ian Kinsler to first base is as good an option as free agent Adam LaRoche, for example. Cameron wrote a long piece (insider) today on the topic. Here's a small part of it: ...

Getty Images Southpaws (l to r) Mike Minor, Tommy Milone and Jon Niese are three "hidden aces" in the majors. Jon Niese is one of three "hidden aces" in major league baseball, according to Dave Cameron of FanGraphs. The others, also young lefties: ...